Wagons

Examples

• As soon as the loss of the wagons and horses was generally known, all the owners came upon me for the valuation which I had given bond to pay. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They take with them neither wagons nor artillery; these latter marching with the balance of the army to the James River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I could not load it on the wagons, of course, at that time, but I could drive, and the choppers would load, and some one at the house unload. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• To meet the wagons? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Horsemen were streaming off in every direction, and the clatter of empty wagons being driven off almost drowned the sound of that terrible singing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The train was made up of two carriages, filled with about forty passengers, and seven wagons loaded with stores. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• What news of the wagons, Joe? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Counting both pleasure and business vehicles, the borough of Manhattan boasted about 2,500 storage-battery driven wagons in active use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• So many wagons, bearing his initial, running all over the country. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I asked what terms were to be offered the owners of the wagons; and I was desired to put on paper the terms that appeared to me necessary. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Thirty wagons also, counting two two-horse or mule teams as one, will be allowed to transport such articles as cannot be carried along. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He made his way through the State of New York in wagons drawn by oxen to the remote and primitive township of Bayfield, in Upper Canada, on Lake Huron. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Nah, maister; did th' wagons hit home? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There were dogs now in the column, keeping under the wagons as they moved along. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• We had no transportation for our camp and garrison equipage, so wagons were hired for the occasion and on the 3d of July we started. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• One of these, known as Blenkinsop’s Leeds engine, ran on a tramway, and would draw sixteen wagons with a weight of seventy tons at the rate of about three miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The big wagons were coming on; the dray-horses' huge hoofs were heard splashing in the mud and water. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The wagons are come home an hour ago. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Are the wagons come, Sarah? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The advertisement promised payment according to the valuation, in case any wagons or horses should be lost. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The work of preparation was tedious, because supplies, to load the wagons for the march, had to be brought from a long distance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• All the troops will move with four days' rations in haversacks and eight days' in wagons. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The wagons stood still; they were now deserted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Medical aid was procured immediately; and as soon as we can get a couple of covered wagons and some clean straw, they will be removed to Stilbro'. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The lodge-door was like a common garden-door; on one side of it were great closed gates for the ingress and egress of lorries and wagons. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I had charge of the few wagons allotted to the 4th infantry and of the pack train to supplement them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Humphreys moved at two, and Wright at three o'clock in the morning, without rations, as I have said, the wagons being far in the rear. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You were not with the wagons when they were attacked? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Moravians procured me five wagons for our tools, stores, baggage, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The enemy did detach as expected, and captured twenty-five or thirty wagons which, however, were soon retaken. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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